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...Giovanni Vitiello Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Fantastic Journey of an Ugly Boy: Homosexuality and Salvation in late Ming Pornography Giova n n i Viti el lo (Dreams) frequently have more than one or even several meanings...

...Jeffrey Nunokawa Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Oscar Wilde in Japan: Aestheticism, Orientalism, and the Derealization of the Homosexual Jeffrey Nunokawa What follows is an excerpt from a book I am writing about the Victorian...

..., the latter with the movement for same-sex marriage and participation in the armed services in the United States. This essay extends the application of these terms to Singapore, where between 2001 and 2004 the state tentatively and partially relaxed its restrictions on homosexual activity (e.g., the “Nation...

... on cultural and socio-sexual relations among gendered and sexed publics in the Philippines, and how this is configured in a political economy that privileges Filipino masculinity as a “stabilizing term” in relation to a tripartite relation between “bisexual” men, heterosexual women, and homosexual men...

..., this essay argues against the Foucauldian hypothesis that homosexuality was a modern Western invention and therefore does not apply to the Chinese tongzhi . The question is not whether the incorporation of China into the purview of queer theory reinstates a colonizing epistemology. Rather, the question...

...Chen Yu-Rong; Wang Ping Two activists identify hate speech and morality as two obstacles to LGBT human rights in Taiwan. Although there is no legal discrimination against homosexuals in Taiwan, the authors argue that their absence in the definition of law constitutes another order of violence...

...Wenqing Kang This essay analyzes the language and representation of male same-sex relations in major urban tabloid newspapers, other journalistic writings, and legal discourses. It argues that the Western sexological concept of homosexuality was accepted and incorporated in early-twentieth-century...

... in South Korea’s family-based society, in which homosexuality is considered so shameful for the entire family that “only orphans come out.” Unable to openly show their faces in public, men seek out these “dark spaces” to meet other men for sexual encounters. Unable to overcome these structural conditions...

... of the “immorality” of homosexuality and the dangers of male-on-male sex to military readiness, national defense, and national security. The ruling also fueled anti-LGBT protests. During an April 2016 press event in front of the Constitutional Court, for instance, protesters praised the military's anti-sodomy clause...

... to the meaning of homo- sexuality. First published in 1983 in Chinese as Niezi (Evil Sons), Crystal Boys has not only been reclaimed as a writing of gay history for its depiction of the 1970s underground male homosexual prostitution subculture...

..., the Bible (both the Old and New Testaments) has never been officially published in China.1 The state has resisted the multiparty political system. Homosexuals, and homosexual culture, were considered a disease when they first emerged in China...

... in China , Harriet Evans ( 1997 : 206) writes “Official discourse between the 1950s and 1970s was totally silent about homosexuality.” My own research largely supports this statement; see my qualification in the following pages. Also see Lu 2014 . 2 See Bao's recent work (2018), for example...

... 182 work, tells the story of a gang of humans who abduct four aliens from Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Life: Homosexuality and Catholicism Qi Wang: You are considered the first gay Chinese celebrity who exposed his...

... homosexual rela- tionship, one initiated when Handong, a well-­connected and prosperous businessman in a booming 1980s Beijing, first hires Lan Yu for a late-­night assignation. The desperation of Handong’s violent clasping of Lan Yu...

... lesbian or gay subtext. And while homosexuality is obsessively invoked in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Oshima Nagisa, 1983), allusions to it never coalesce into a definitive representation or an intelligible statement on questions of sexual...

... Same-Sex Relations during the Cultural Revolution,” Wenqing Kang offers a refreshing and more complicated view of that period. In the Mao era, homosexuality was not qualified as a crime, but rather it was an issue of lifestyle, and homosexual behavior was ascribed to bad ideological consciousness...

... in Japan 63 1 homosexuals,” “it is beginning to spread to frequent drug abusers and hemophiliacs.” Two years later to the day, the Japanese press would admit in a double-negative...

... century, were characterized as robust and adolescent male homosexual practitioners who were diligently learning warrior man- hood from their senior partners. Starting from this “military masculinity,” onnagata eventually reached artistic perfection...

... of sexual and gendered identities, but it is not a sys- tem of hetero- and homosexualities. The binary opposition of sexualities and the assumption that sexual practice is the ground of identity are dimen- sions of the second sedgender...

... might be called “excavation work,” many practitioners have had to ask, Who is a lesbian? What is meant by a historical subject who is gay? and When is one homosexual? The necessity of such questions may seem obvi- ous. That is, we...